At least eight people, including three children, were killed in the bombardment of a restaurant in Kramatorsk, in the Donbass, according to a new report released on Wednesday June 28 by the State Emergency Service. The strike, attributed to Russia and which occurred on Tuesday, also injured 56 and destroyed the Ria Pizza, an establishment in the center of the city frequented by journalists and the military. “Rescuers search the rubble of the destroyed building and search for people who are likely to be under the rubble”said Ukrainian relief on Telegram. Follow our live.
Several buildings damaged. According to Ukrainian police, Russia fired two S-300 surface-to-air rockets at Kramatorsk, which remains the only major city still under Ukrainian control in the east of the country. Apartments, shops, cars, a post office and several other buildings near the restaurant were also damaged, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said.
kyiv denounces “a manifestation of terror”. “Each display of terror proves again and again, to us and to the whole world, that Russia deserves only one thing as a result of all that it has done: defeat and a tribunal.”said Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily address.
Three Colombians among the injured. Ihe famous writer Hector Abad, the politician Sergio Jaramillo and the journalist Catalina Gomez, correspondent in Ukraine for the daily El Tiempo, were lightly injured while eating in the restaurant with Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was also injured in the attack. Hector Chabad and Sergio Jaramillo were staying in eastern Ukraine to “to express to the Ukrainian people the solidarity of Latin America against barbarism and the illegal invasion led by Russia”.